This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Got into a different kind of conversation this morning with an Addison Lee driver. He was convinced I was going to Amber Gamble at the bottom of the west bound A3 Wandsowrth Gyratory. He hollered out of his window at me to stop, which I was doing anyway. Proceeded to tell me that if I jumped the lights he'd have me on camera. I wound him up by pointing out we don't have number plates so pretty much immune to being caught like that. Then told him that technically he'd jumped the lights as his front wheels were just over the stop line. He did not like this, and while his brain was fully engaged in formulating a reply, missed the change to green and got honked by the van behind. A victory of sorts.

Sorry to hear that, this morning was end of half term they tell me, super heavy traffic on CS7 and up into Vauxhall, lots of cunty behaviour.

Crossing Walworth Road from Urlwin Street to Albany road this morning. A chap turned right across my path, slammed his brakes on to avoid colliding with me and then the saucy cunt told ME to use my eyes.

Or alternatively, do that and watch their head explode.

What happened?

Relaxed cycle in. Smelt plant marijuana on the way to work around 0830.

Bit early for smoking a joint, no? :P

He had a full apoplectic hissyfit at the wheel, stamping on his brakes and revs at the same time while hammering the horn.
Then came revving past shouting accross through the passenger window.

Monday morning cunt day it seems!

Had a rubbish truck turn left off bethnal green road without indicating acorss my self and a young lady. I put my hands up then pointed at his indicators so he did the good on wanker shake out the window. So i flicked it round and chased him down scared the fuck out of him when i had a go at him on then proceeded to say dont swear at me so said the same thing without swearing and then told me to get fucked. Veiola will be getting a phone call me thinks.

Apart form that what a glorious day!!! pity my phone lost signal and didnt record on strava as i had a good run minus rubbish wanker.

Might it be that it is such a glorious day that there is a latent frustration and jealousy from drivers, fuelled by the fact that they are trapped in their hot little boxes while we spin about with the wind in our hair and a smile on us faces?

Flyby is a great idea to get him called out to the club.

In other commuting news I got a great pull by a scooter on the OKR this morning. Granted it was only 10 seconds but it was such good fun.

Just had flyby explained to me by a pro-ammuter at work. Sounds like another reason not to Strava your commute.

My commute is super short at the moment yet the amount of people for whom it is absolutely essential to overtake me at all costs is still as high as ever. Had a genius roar past me, narrowly avoiding an oncoming vehicle this morning, all so he could be first to a red light 40 yards away. Then when it finally turned green he (think it was a bloke) was too busy arsing about to notice and waited for about 10 seconds before moving. Hit another wall of traffic and was duly overtaken, didn't see him again.

What is flyby?

haha. That nearly made me spit out my tea

Its how you get your creep on using strava.

It's like stalking with time travel.

If everyone Stravas their commute then using flyby you can get the details of anyone you saw on your commute by replaying it in flyby mode and looking at their Strava id. This is because Strava overlaps all the commutes of everyone you were near and since lots of Strava users don't set up privacy zones you can then see where they live and where they work. What bikes they own and which ones they ride most often.

Ask old bill to remind officers that yelling at cyclists concentrating on staying alive is a bloody stupid thing to do. Coppers yelling road safety advice out of van windows, ffs.

that is really depressing

I have two front lights - one that I remove when I lock up the bike and one old one that is a massive faff to get on and off so I don't bother.

Locked up the bike outside a pub in Holborn this evening and came out for some air mid-way through the night to find a man with a tattered old Ken bike (possibly a homeless bloke who's taken ownership) nicking my old front light. I'm not hugely fussed, but I confront him... At which point he gives me the light back and tries to sell me a can of lager out of the Ken bike's front rack.

Almost took him up on the offer, but not quite.

Moved the bike to another location where I could fit the back wheel into the mini D-lock that I was using.

Motorbikes/Mopeds are my least favorite road users.
Mainly because a lot of them use the advance stop boxes, which are not for them (this point makes my blood boil) and also because they don't seem to feel the need to pass with enough distance, i hate having mopeds zip past my right arm at 30mph

One of my worst days for terrible terrible driving going on on my commute. Being cut up, forced onto pavement (literally). Pulled out on by massive bus. I tend to get angry with people who are cunts but it turns out that they are cunts, need to start taking the more calmed approach of a few above.

Also men in vans who pull out without looking, straight infront of me then slam there brakes on to honk and shout at women deserve to have there penises removed without the help of anesthetic.

Moped riders are just nodders with engines, and should be regarded as such.

#continentaldreamers

DP member riding like a twat, shocker.

Probably is a twat if he's doing that in his club kit.

bro, do u even white van?

Antihistamine + glasses = win